NIMS and HEICS are reaching agreement
Hospital Safety Connection, June 2, 2006
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With the September 30 deadline approaching for organizations receiving federal emergency preparedness funds to comply with the regulations set by the National Incident Management System (NIMS), it seems that one key hurdle has been surmounted.
Officials from NIMS and the Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS)--a crisis management plan specifically for hospitals to coordinate their own responses to emergencies--are in the process of reconciling discrepancies in their respective guidelines for hospital emergency planning.
Version IV of HEICS is currently under development by its original creator, the California Emergency Medical Systems Authority in Sacramento, to ensure that it fully complies with NIMS.
Meanwhile, a draft of NIMS' 17 compliance guidelines for hospitals is in its final stages of approval.
The upcoming issue of Briefings on Hospital Safety will have much more on this development.
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